Enough people took Brian Fargo's positive comments about Origin's support for crowd-funded games as an indication that Wasteland 2 might be an Origin exclusive that the inXile Entertainment CEO took to Twitter to correct that mistaken impression. He says: "It is absolutely NOT going to be exclusive on Origin. They are just one of many digital stores we will support." Thanks nin.

xXBatmanXx wrote on May 19, 2012, 12:52:Steam also didn't go and remove all games from their competitors.

Valve doesn't sell its games through most digital distribution services, so in some respects EA is actually better. However, EA's boycott of Steam, the excessive price of the games they sell, the extreme DRM they use and the way they've screwed over developers means I simply won't touch their games.

For what it's worth I have an Origin account and I have about 20 games on it, though that's only because I was able to register the serial keys from the EA games I purchased on Steam. It's not terrible but it's certainly nowhere near as good as Steam and I can't bring myself to support the abhorrent business practices of EA. At the end of the day it doesn't offer me any advantages and I hate juggling multiple accounts. The numbers of times I've forgotten my login to other services - usually because of bizarre password requirements - is a joke. In fact until the release of Diablo III I would have to reset my password for Battle.net every time I went to play Starcraft II.

If EA removed all DRM (including any requirement to use Origin), offered reasonable prices, made a client that better than Steam and stopped fucking over both developers and customers then I'd be happy to buy my games there. Afterall, I have over 500 games on Steam and I don't feel particularly inclined to migrate to another service. At the moment Origin just doesn't even come close.